Skyping the Wife: Foolproof Video Conferencing with Your Family While on the Road (12)
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I really like presenting and traveling around and meeting people, but I just hate being away from my kids. It's visceral. It's physically painful. I bring them whenever I can, but during this last trip to New Zealand and Australia it wasn't possible and I was away for 8 days. Almost killed me. Since I work from home, when I need to talk to folks in Redmond I use Office Communicator, sometimes ooVoo if we ...
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Rick Umali said:
Nicely written and brief HOWTO for video conferencing with your non-technical significant other.
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) for kidney stones (1)
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Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) uses shock waves to break a kidney stone into small pieces that can more easily travel through the urinary tract and pass from the body.
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Barry said:
This will be what is attempted first on me on Tuesday.
Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples FIRST DRAFT - DotNetSlackers Community (1)
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This book provides implementations of common and uncommon algorithms inpseudocode which is language independent and provides for easy porting to mostimperative programming languages. It is not a de¯nitive book on the theory ofdata structures and algorithms.For the most part this book presents implementations devised by the authorsthemselves based on the concepts by which the respective algorithms are basedupon so it is more than possible that our implementations di®er from thoseconsidered the norm.You should use this ...
Mayor Gordon recall effort apparently dead (1)
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Airport to debut color-coded security lanes (1)
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The Power of Red (18)
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The Pope dons red Prada kicks, politicians break out red ties in election season and that darn Netflix package always seems to stand out in a crowd of manilla and ivory mail. Why red? Do humans have a penchant for the rainbow’s most fiery color? This study released in 2005 discovered that red-clad athletes out-performed competitors donning blue uniforms and suggested that the win discrepancy occurred because of an innate association of red with dominance ...
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Rodrigo said:
"This study released in 2005 discovered that red-clad athletes out-performed competitors..." Não é o que se observa em Porto Alegre :p
Officer's widow slammed by radio host (1)
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A Phoenix police officer whose death last year launched a furor over illegal immigration has sparked a new uproar after a radio talk-show host made incendiary comments about his widow.
Food that eats itself (15)
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Flickr user agmilmoe posted a delightful photoset of "Anthropomorphic Cannibalism," or food so delicious that it eats itself. Seen above, "Two Fisted Cannibal." Anthropomorphic Cannibalism (Flickr, thanks John Alderman!) UPDATE: Previously on BB: • Suicide foods: eager-to-be-eaten food mascots
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Barry said:
It's a simple question, even a child could answer it. Would you eat yourself?
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Jeremy Jarratt said:
This is one of my favorite creepy things about being born-to-consume in America.
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dan said:
seriously, this has bothered me for years!
| Deserted After Dark |: Pass The Van Goghgurt, Please (1)
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...Always with the ear, huh?
No GoLive required to use ASP.NET MVC in production (1)
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This is the blog of Simone Chiaretta, an Italian .NET developer, migrated to Wellington (NZ) and with a passion for mountain climbing.
Microsoft Office Ultimate 91% Off to "Students" (Again) [Deals] (82)
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Microsoft yesterday re-introduced its "Ultimate Steal" program, offering students (but, in reality, anyone with a .edu address) its Office Ultimate 2007 package for $59.95, which goes for $680 on retail shelves. The company will also put up its Visio Professional 2007 design package and a Vista Ultimate Upgrade at the $60 price on Sept. 8. The web-only offering will be available "throughout the academic school year," according to a press release, but if you haven't ...
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WindPower said:
Sadly on peut pas en profiter puisque Stanislas n'a pas de .edu domain name comme toutes les ecoles qui se respectent, et ne donne pas d'aresses email comme toutes les ecoles tout court
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lewis said:
This is valid for anyone with a .edu address. Which you can usually get for free as an alumnus.
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sirmikester said:
@Roger, you buying this? I thought the Moto deal was better...
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Alexander Williams said:
The only way to give Microsoft about what Vista's worth.
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jsuplido said:
Great deal for students in the US! How about faculty?
Eastbound 101 will be closed over weekend (1)
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McCain's D&D character stats (23)
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With the McCain campaign smearing Dungeons and Dragons players, Wired's Threat Level blog is asking its readers to come up with character descriptions or Monster Manual blurbs for McCain: 1st Level Fighter / 14th Level Aristocrat by (+5, Troll) His stat block is STR 12, INT 9, WIS 9, DEX 9, CON 10, CHR 14, adjusting for age. His Bluff skill is maxed, but he has just one rank in Knowledge (Religion) and no ranks ...
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Wa said:
WTF? You are a troll Mr. McCain.
3 seek to oust GOP official (1)
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Making better Facebook video 606 pixels at a time (12)
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Yesterday I did a couple of interviews at Facebook’s headquarters that’ll be up over the next couple of weeks. But in between I stopped at Chris Putnam’s desk. I’ve known him since he was 16, living in Atlanta (he showed me a web service he built so that people on the Internet could listen to him practice his piano). Anyway, he’s the guy who built Facebook’s video system. Interesting that he has three monitors on ...
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Steve said:
very interesting..!
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Josh Bancroft said:
Why 606 pixels wide? That seems really arbitrary, and not really easily scalable to popular resolutions (640x480 for TV, 320x240 for most web stuff, etc.).I've been using 640 pixels wide as my standard for a long time, and it seems to work really well. Scales by a nice even factor, down for small devices, or up for HDTVs, etc. It's a nice compromise on file size and quality, too (though there's a lot more to it than that). Anyone know what's so special about 606 pixels, or is it just this crazy guy at Facebook? ;-)
